Make Blog not Love

I once read about a guy who spent his whole Internet life (say since the late ’90s) contributing to thousands of discussion boards and eventually he died in front of his computer especially because of that obsession. It’s possible that he was having a stroke and tried to e-mail the emergency. We’ll never know. Somehow, he reminded me of myself which is weird since I do not do discussion forums at all!

Anyway, I used to always say, that when they find me dead (which will hopefully happen soon after I die otherwise I assume the corpse will not smell nice), there will be only ice cream and bacon in my fridge.

Well, time flew by and the content of my fridge slowly started to look very similar to the previous statement and I begin to worry a little!

But what concerns me more: are we really going to be stuck in front of these blinking things forever (or until found dead as the poor guy mentioned above)? Because if you think about it there is no real way out!

You may think that this issue does not concern you since you don’t work in the IT business. Wrong! Look around your workplace. Are there any computers around? There are, huh? Almost any job nowadays require on some level usage of computer, even if only once a day.

Oh yes, there might be really small jobs that does not require employees to use or go near the computer stuff, but I am afraid that these are mostly underpaid or poorly paid and therefore there is no way to pay high rent with such jobs, unless you share your living with dozens of people in a circus tent or suffer from having a wife who could earn something as well.

So you suggest I change the profession if I don’t like working around computers, right? I thought about that, obviously. What’s better – I tried too! I applied to another university after being five years out of the last one. Well guess what, I failed. Not totally though. But I found, that even the preparation to that took me more than six months while having a work. Which turned out to be the biggest bottleneck – work, or better say money. The bloody thing invented by British.

I even went that far that I changed my original apartment for a lousy cheap one to keep the living costs at the real bottom. I stopped ordering pizzas on fridays and rather made myself something at home. I removed backseats from my car in order to save on fuel (did not help much though).

Wasn’t enough. I mean I saved some money, but the bloody effing life did not want me to be happy and kept tossing obstacles in my way. I will mention them later since there were really so many!

Hell I also took another part time job to earn some extra money.

And what is the result of all this? I am not studying since I am not able to prepare properly (=I am dumb) due to lack of money and I live in 9+1 apartment (9 meters from a highway and one meter under ground) which will probably soon suffocate me.

So I keep starting my day around 6 am every day going to first work, then to another one and finishing totally exhausted around midnight trying to forget all these things. Simply horrible.

But to get back to the original thought – some people, typically top managers, CEOs and these type of people try to solve their stress by going to distant places with nature and real trees, temples or join an African primitive tribe where there are no stress causing devices like phones, computers or wives. But this is not a solution even if they spend years in there and assuming they won’t be eaten by some cannibals, they will eventually return to their work life and start circling around in the same mess.

I guess we just keep moving in circles until we are totally exhausted or dead, which is probably the very same. Nice future prospects.